What is "meritocratic"

Usage examples of "meritocratic".

Many of the towns have already reestablished a meritocratic aristocracy.

The culture protects itself from an excess of artists by throwing up filters: editors, critics, teachers, device logging, all the machineries of meritocratic Selektion.

There are also reflex liberal arguments that anything freer is by definition good and meritocratic arguments that the outpouring of children from the lower classes should be stemmed.

Chaptal, the royal inspector of mines and professor of chemistry, ennobled by Louis XVI in 1788 on the usual meritocratic ladder, became a Napoleonic minister of the interior.

When these students react by dropping out, intellectually if not physically, their poor school performance helps convince them as well as their peers in the faster tracks that the system is meritocratic and that they themselves lack merit.

He had already dressed and performed his ablutions, and his white hair was combed back with a small pin holding it in place, forming the little scholar's knot, a meritocratic style he had shunned until now.